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MiningSantiago Metropolitan, Chile5001-10000 Employees
Enaex is a Chilean mining explosives company, headquartered in Las Condes, Santiago Metropolitan Region, and a subsidiary of the Sigdo Koppers group, with more than a century of experience in the explosives market. It ranks as the third-largest producer of low-density ammonium nitrate worldwide and provides integrated rock-fragmentation services for the mining industry in Chile and Latin America, including ownership of the Prillex America complex, the world's largest ammonium nitrate production complex with a capacity of 850 thousand tons per year. The company operates an extensive network of service plants at major mining sites in Chile and has a growing footprint in Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia to support rock fragmentation and blasting services. Enaex expanded internationally through acquisitions, including Britanite in Brazil (2015) and Davey Bickford (2015), and formed Enaex Africa via a Sasol Explosives joint venture in 2020, with further expansion through the acquisition of Downer Blasting Services in Australia in 2021. The company pursues an international growth plan to expand its global presence and enhance its capabilities with state-of-the-art technologies.